Opinion: Iran’s Mythical ‘Moderate’

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... I ... welcome back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel you're looking in a photograph of Iran is new leader ... sixty four year old cleric Hassan a rough on me ... what suggestions from the press from the Obama administration the skies and moderate a Sunday a weekend deal with ... is that really true I've got Wall Street Journal Assistant books editor so ever Mari here ... to discuss the ... toaster and in India moderator isn't he ... he's not he's the a ... and fees for having me he's would you call a smiling all ... the smiling Mala ... is a guy who has the same backward social views ... in terms of the team and a win in the treatment of the press but he might give you a set of women having to cover up all the way to their forehead ... The might give you a little bit of an inch of hair to show ... and the yuan on foreign policy matters he believes the same stuff he thinks we should try to undermine on U S allies in the region ... we should try to ... undermine U S ... interests ... and alliances in the region ... but ... keep Max all of that with a veneer of talking about dialogue among civilizations and ... and the so the the the ... grandiose ... rhetoric ... that isn't really backed up by any ... concrete ... policy changes from what's come before from this regime ... so basically the press isn't completely hoodwinked by this guy a and and and his history doesn't suggests unease among her in any way shape or form ... um so what does affect the turnout was so high in the selection in ... the three pointer that the sale of the rain people have their say ... he did the turnout was high time something over seventy percent of people voted for you hafta take it with a little bit of a grandest Coronet saw a lot of people in Iranian society ... are required ... to vote on because they get various handouts ... and ... getting those handouts to keep in your state job is contingent upon you voting but ... the videos the use of people being jubilant and dancing the streets those are probably genuine and the reason that is because the ... the mullahs actually Masters the plane the society in other words ... you have a society that's like ... a boiling cauldron ... you know you have ... something like two thirds of the Society of people who are ... under twenty five around thirty years old ... and ... you have octogenarian ball is rolling over them well that's not gonna work ... and you have the lead of the cauldron ... I ... but occasionally you let out the set of switch the spigot so that ... some steam gets let out ... and be around people because they're frustrated because the last two years have been really tough ... whatever opportunity comes up that the fall of going to St to celebrate ... they're gonna do it I'm but it doesn't necessarily mean that David sent it to the regime ... Suzie China stoking an anti Japan sentiment same kind of thing aam I was caught up on the screen from Denis McDonough ... as chief of staff the Obama missed ration in he said and I quote ... I see as a potentially hopeful sign ... I think the question for us now is if he's interested in ... as he said his campaign events mending his relations Iran's relations with the rest of the world ... there's an opportunity to do that and quotes are on ... that sounds like that the White House wants to do you do deals with this guy is that how you read it it's it's deja vu all over again it's as though the past thirty four years of the past four years of the Obama missed ration ... had and hadn't occurred ... on and it's as though that the regime could it be the answer that Washington has forgotten this regimes history ... every new Iranian administration that comes and ... says we want to have better relations with the world we wanna have dialogue among the civilization ... and at the same time they ... that they ratchet up the repression at home ... and they had tried a planned assassination plots where they carry the mountain in Argentina in the nineteen nineties where O pour more recently with the attempt to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington ... in Washington that all of that has gone on while ... the guy who comes and says ... on the moderates ... are let's talk about Matt and I live ... of course that in a sentence is up with about thirty seconds left but it's not just about repression who was about the nuclear program ... so bye bye saying signaling the sky we wanna talk to you ... I was that mean for the development of that program the threats to us or our allies in the least I think this is going to buy more time is going to be more meetings about meetings about meetings ... and ... technical ... meetings where they talk about when to have ... more meetings ... Andy's cousin to buy time to get to it than him ... okay so I ... very very gloomy gloomy outlook smiling my life was to journalists assembled senators sober Marty thanks much for being on show ...